News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-28
THE CARE OF CHILDREN.
A Few Timely Words to Those NO"
Carving Heavy Burden.

mother of nine children thus speaks:
NTn+bnrs who in the long, hot days OF
his season are watching your poor NIUE
LaLies mining and fading away, while
al axnariments with various foods and
medicines fail to vanqulsh tlie teil f1p
foe and summer scourge, choleI" !ill.'ii
tnm. try the following: cave up 1T oilG9
the nse of milk in any way prepared
either boiled, condensed, n! mlHeo' III
large or small quantities, with any 10 u
the cereal foods; not drop OF AnllA,
until the child is well and the summer
is over! Get apound OF lean 1resh ceei'
tbe butcher must cut it at least an men
thick. from the finest portion OF tne
round. Use one half of it for beef JUICE
by rule given later; take the other nan
raw upon plate, hold it steady WIN +"
fork stuck firmly into the piece near thG
edge. and with small, sharp steel
knife. grasped partly by the blade as
we'll rs by the handle, scrape, away rom
Won. the whole length OF the beef across
the top. What you thus take from th9
beef will be fine, smooth paste, ana
for very sick baby one half teaspoon
fnl will be enough for the first feeding.
Cover the rest of the beef closely with
SANGER. and put it right away on ice, OF
in the coolest place, until you want to
snro,1a some more to feed the child
again. -, ,..n.
salt. and take small pinches of it in your
thumb and finger, and put it so upon
the babv's tongue. A child of five or SIX
months can swallow and digest this fine,
smooth paste when every drop OF milk
will turn to curd and acid and burn its
Door little stomach. Give the child
water only to drink and crushed ice rom
a small spoon. To crush the ice very
fine and quickly, put into clean
stout cloth, about as large as Il hand
kerchief, a piece of ice the size OF an
egg. Take up the four corners OF the
cloth loosely like sling, and strike the
ice with three or four sharp, smart
strokes upon the edge of the marble slab
or stone windowsill. The ice will be
mashed fine almost as snow. Iou can
give five to ten drops of brandy upon
such crushed ice; it is a good plan to
keep some brandy, in a small bottle, Il
little sweetened, ready for use III this
way. Feed the baby often with small
quantities of the beef-One-half tea
spoonful every hour, and brandy with
ice between until you see improvement;
then you can give little more at one
time and not quite so often, and after
forty eight hours, perhaps sooner, some
stale bread crumbs and beef juice.
Crumb fine n piece of bread, stale
but perfectly sweet and light, about two
inches square A little Champion
cracker will do, but bread is better.
Pour very little boiling water upon it,
enough to enable you to mash 1t to
smooth, stiff paste. Heat piece of the
other half of the beef over hot Goals,
but not enough to cook it. Take from
the fire upon hot plate, cut it into
pieces two inches square, score them
with sharp knife, sprinkle little salt
upon them and squeeze the juice from
them with a lemon-squeeZer. MANY
poor have no lemon-squeezers! Well,
wash your hands very clean III cold wa
ter and do your best, squeezing with
your hands.) Mix the bread paste and
beef juice, and feed very slowly, in
small quantities, to the baby. To a
baby very weak and young you must
feed with your fingers ; a stronger child
can be fed with a spoon, but remember,
only small bits at each mouthful. Ii
the child is old enough to swallow bread
and butter, when it gets better, let it eat
stale bread, sparely buttered, or crllmb
ed into the beef juice, freely, and give
plenty of the raw, scraped beef. On
this diet three of my little children
were saved from death by cholera infan-
tum, and one eat nothing else for
more than year, excepting. after two
or three months, an occasional baked
potato, mixed with the raw beef, and
sometimes n little well-boiled rice with
a very little sweet butter and sugar, and
drank only water. A tablespoonful of
milk would work instant mischief with
these three children.
Without drugs, I have succeeded in
bringing several apparently dying child
rcn back to life upon this diet of raw
beef paste and bread and beef juice.
Sometimes the persistent use of milk
has so inflamed the stomach and bowels
with its sharp acid as to require a cor
receive. Then give little powders OF
bi-carbonate of potash-twO, three or
five grains each, as the child is five or
six months or year old. Dissolve one
in the crushed ice and feed the baby
with it from a small spoon, a powder
three or four times a day. It is very
tasteless. No doubt your doctor will
laugh you to scorn while you try to
bring your baby up ON raw beef and
bread and butter But ''let those laugh
who win And this is experience.